RE: "Blind for a Day" - visibility: hidden vs none

> -----Original Message-----
> From: P.H.Lauke [mailto:P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk]
> Sent: 19 May 2004 09:54
> To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Subject: RE: "Blind for a Day" - visibility: hidden vs none
> 
> 
> 
> > From: James Craig
> [snip]
> > Of course, Mr. Clark would disagree with this method, saying 
> > skip links 
> > should be visible to sighted keyboard users, too.
> 
> That's why I would propose having a :focus and :hover rule in
> the CSS to make the skip link visible again when you tab to it.

I'm not etirely convinced that making something suddenly appear when it's tabbed to is a great idea.
May be confusing to a large section of people.
I personally can't see what's wrong with having it visible at all times to all users.


Julian

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